psychosensory aphasia
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Related to psychosensory aphasia: global aphasia, nominal aphasia, motor aphasia, Wernicke's aphasia, verbal aphasia
sen·so·ry a·pha·si·a
aphasia with impairment in the comprehension of spoken and written words, associated with effortless, articulated, but paraphrastic speech and writing; malformed words, substitute words, and neologisms are characteristic. When condition severe and speech is incomprehensible, it is called jargon aphasia. The patient often appears unaware of the deficit.
Synonym(s): fluent aphasia, impressive aphasia, posterior aphasia, psychosensory aphasia, receptive aphasia, Wernicke aphasia
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psychosensory aphasia
(1) Complete aphasia, see there.(2) Wernicke's aphasia, see there.
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